Nancy CUMPSTON

  General Notes:

1824 BIRTH of Nancy Cumpston (James Monroe was President)

1844 MARRIAGE of John Allum and Nancy Cumpston

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Jefferson Township ("John," age 28, "Blacksmith")

1854 DEATH of first husband, John Allum, at 34 years 3 months 21 days

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township (Nancy is remarried to Jacob Newland) (Jacob "Newel," age 60, "Farmer") (wife "Nancy," age 36) (see immediately below)

By 1860, Nancy had remarried to Jacob Newland, whose name is "Newel" in an 1860 census index. In the Jacob Newland household are three of Nancy's children by John Allum: Manerva, William, and Osa (as "Oca"). Also in the household is Margaret Newland, Nancy's daughter by Jacob.

In 1860, Nancy's two remaining children by John Allum are in the household of their paternal grandfather, Charles Allum ("Allums"): Malinda [as "Matilda"], age 15, "House Domestic," and her younger brother John [John Erwin Allum], age 11.

1864 MOVE (approximate) from Pennsylvania to Illinois (Nancy and Jacob's daughter, "Plezzie" Newland, was born about 1865 in Illinois)

1870 DEATH of second husband, Jacob Newland (in January) (1870 Mortality Schedule for Belle Prairie Township, Livingston County, Illinois)

Mortality Schedule: "Newland, Jacob, age 60, male, white, born in Virginia, died in June, occupation Farmer, cause of death "Overlifting"

The 1860 census provides "60" as his age in that year, meaning he would have been born about 1800; the 1870 mortality schedule provides his age as 60 in that year, meaning he would have been born about 1810.

1870 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Belle Prairie Township, Fairbury (Head of household, John* "Allen" ["Farmer"], age 22, with siblings William, 20, and Osa, 18, mother Nancy (Allum) Newland, age 46, and Newland children, Margaret, 12; Marietta, 10; Plezzie, 5; and Alfred, 2)

1880 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Belle Prairie Township, Fairbury ("Nancy Newland," age 55, with sons John Allum, 32, and William Allum, 30; and Newland children Maggie, 22; "Etta," 19; Plezzie, 15; and Frederick, 12 (documented as "Alfred" in the 1870 census) (Alfred's middle name may have been Frederick)

1900 CENSUS

1904 DEATH of Nancy at approximately 80 years. Nancy is buried as "Nancy Newlyn, 1824-1904" at Upper Tenmile Cemetery in Prosperity, Washington County, Pennsylvania. (Theodore Roosevelt was President when Nancy died)




OBITUARY (Nancy) from WAYNESBURG REPUBLICAN, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1904:


MRS. NANCY NEWLYN

Mrs. Nancy Newlyn, widow of the late Jacob Newlyn, died Monday evening, Jan. 11, at the home of her son-in-law Hugh Montgomery, near Old Concord, Washington county, aged 80 years. Mrs. Newlyn was born and raised near Greensboro, this county, her maiden name being Cumpston. In 1844 she was united in marriage with John Allum and five children were born to them. All are living in the West, excepting Mrs. Morgan Simpson, of Old Concord. Mr. Allum died in 1854. Some years later Mrs. Allum was united in marriage with Jacob Newlyn of East Finley township. To this union five children were born, four of whom survive, as follows: Mr. Hugh Montgomery, Miss Etta Newlyn and A. S. Newlyn, of Old Concord; Mrs. U. G. St. Myers of Wheeling, W. Va. Mrs. Newlyn was a devoted and consistent Christian woman being a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Old Concord. The funeral services were held Wednesday and the interment was made in the Prosperity cemetery.

Nancy married John ALLUM, son of Charles W. ALLUM and Jemima BARNHART, in 1844 in Greene County, Pennsylvania. (John ALLUM was born on June 22, 1820 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, died on October 13, 1854 in Greene County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, Greene County, Pennsylvania.)

Nancy next married Mr. SIMPSON after 1854.

Nancy next married Jacob NEWLYN - NEWLAND after 1854. (Jacob NEWLYN - NEWLAND was born about 1800 in Virginia and died January or June 1870 in Belle Prairie Township, Livingston County, Illinois.)